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The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York announced on April 23 that William P. Kelly, president of the Graduate Center, will serve as interim chancellor of the University starting July 1, following Chancellor Matthew Goldstein's announcement that he would step down after nearly fourteen years in the post. The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York will conduct a national search for a permanent chancellor.
Dr. Kelly, a distinguished scholar of American literature, vice chairman of the CUNY Research Foundation, and trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, was unanimously appointed to the interim position at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. He has served as a University educator for nearly four decades.
"Dr. Kelly brings an extensive scholarly record, superb administrative experience, and a deep commitment to the University's educational mission to the position of interim Chancellor," said Board Chairperson Benno Schmidt. "He will provide continuity of purpose and policy during this important transition period."
Kelly has led the Graduate Center, CUNY's doctorate-granting institution, since June 2005. Previously he served for seven years as the Graduate Center's provost and senior vice president, a period marked by the recruitment of internationally renowned scholars to the graduate school's faculty. Recently, he chaired a key component of the University's Pathways to Degree Completion reform of general education and transfer policies, leading faculty committees that selected pathway courses for CUNY's largest transfer majors.
Kelly has recommended to Chancellor Goldstein that Provost Chase F. Robinson serve as the Graduate Center's interim president. Dr. Robinson was named provost and senior vice president of the Graduate Center in 2008. Robinson, a historian of the premodern Middle East, is also distinguished professor of history. As provost, he initiated and led a comprehensive planning process that culminated in the GC's Strategic Plan for 2012–2016, outlining the institution's major goals: increasing selectivity in admissions; enhancing financial support to ensure excellence and promote diversity; and generating a culture of interdisciplinary and collaborative learning and research.
Working collaboratively with the Office of Institutional Advancement, Robinson has secured major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation, which has enhanced faculty support and built the institution's digital capacity, establishing the Graduate Center at the forefront of the digital evolution within higher education. His achievements at the GC also include a significant expansion in the Master's of Liberal Studies and the launching of major initiatives such as the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, the CUNY Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context, and the Advanced Research Collaborative, which brings together CUNY and international scholars in collaborative and interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and humanities.


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By Alec Fenn, Goal.com
The clock may still have some way to tick before we're licking our lips at the prospect of the 'greatest show on earth', but before next summer's World Cup is upon us we can at least savor a brief taste of what is in store come 2014.
From June 15-30, eight teams will battle it out at the Confederations Cup in Brazil, as the host nation undergoes a dress rehearsal ahead of football's most prestigious tournament. Goal decided to put together our very own A-Z of the competition and give you the lowdown on everything from Golden Balls to magical Mexicans...
A is for Adriano. Back in 2005 the then 23-year-old was one of the hottest strikers on the planet. His five goals at the Confederations Cup that summer saw Brazil lift the trophy and Adriano crowned winner of the Golden Shoe (top goalscorer) and Golden Ball (best player).
B is for Brazil. The 2013 tournament will be held in Brazil and the Selecao will go in search of their fourth Confederations Cup triumph having won the last two editions of the competition in 2005 and 2009 as well as the 1997 edition.
C is for Cafusa. The official match ball for the tournament has been produced by Adidas and named Cafusa. The title is a combination of the words carnival, football and samba.
D is for Denilson. Once the most expensive player in world football, the Brazilian was awarded the Golden Ball at the 1997 Saudi Arabia competition to crown him the best player on show.
E is for eight. The tournament is contested by the winners of the six FIFA confederation championships – UEFA, CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, CAF, AFC and OFC, as well as the host nation and reigning World Cup winner.*
F is for final. The 78,000-seater, refurbished Maracana stadium will host the 2013 Confederations Cup final.
G is for Golden Ball, Golden Shoe and Golden Gloves. Those are the three individual awards up for grabs for best player, top goalscorer and best goalkeeper in action across the two weeks of football.
H is for hat tricks. Vladimir Smicer, Ronaldo, Romario, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Marzouk Al-Otaibi, Ronaldinho, Luciano Figueroa and Fernando Torres are the only eight men to have scored a Confederations Cup hat trick.
I is for Italy. The Azzurri have the chance to become the third team after Argentina and France to win all three major FIFA tournaments, having previously won the World Cup and Olympic football competitions. Uruguay and Spain can also achieve that feat with victory.
J is for Japan. The Samurai Blue make their fifth Confederations Cup appearance having qualified as Asian Cup champions. They finished in second place at the 2001 tournament.
K is for King Fahd Cup. Saudi Arabia originally organized and competed in the tournament, held in 1992 and 1995 and featuring only a few continental champions, before FIFA took over the competition and renamed it the Confederations Cup.
L is for Luis Fabiano. The Sao Paulo striker was the top goalscorer at the 2009 tournament and is one of five Brazilians who make up the top 10 hit men in Confederations Cup history, alongside Alex, Romario, Ronaldinho and Adriano.
M is for magical Mexicans. Cuauhtemoc Blanco is tied with Ronaldinho for most goals in a single tournament. He scored nine times as Mexico lifted the trophy in 1999.
N is for Nielsen. Richard Moller Nielsen guided Denmark to its first and only Confederations Cup success back in 1995. The country defeated Argentina 2-0 in the final.
O is for OFC. The 2012 OFC Nations Cup was won by Tahiti, meaning the small island become the first nation other than Australia or New Zealand to represent Oceania at the global tournament.
P is for part-time. Only one member of the Tahiti squad, Panathanaikos striker Marama Vahirua, plays outside of the Polynesian island. The rest ply their trade as semiprofessionals in the Tahiti First Division.
Q is for qualified. Brazil, Japan, Mexico and Italy will do battle in Group A for a place in the semifinals, while Spain, Uruguay, Tahiti and Nigeria will do the same in Group B.
R is for for record. An average of 60,625 supporters watched Confederations Cup matches at the Mexico 1999 tournament. That total is a competition record.
S is for six. The tournament will be contested at six venues in six different cities across Brazil.
T is for technology. Goal-line technology will be used in Brazil, with German company GoalControl GmbH the official provider of 14 high-speed cameras – seven behind each goal.
U is for Uruguay. Oscar Tabarez's side is the second South American team, along with host Brazil, to qualify for the tournament as a result of its 2011 Copa America success. The team has yet to win the trophy in its history.
V is for vuvuzela. The Brazilian version of the headache-inducing instrument, known as the caxirola, has been banned because of public safety concerns.
W is for winners. Brazil may well be hoping for a glorious exit from the competition if omens are anything to go by. On the three occasions the team have lifted the Confederations Cup (1997, 2005 and 2009), the Selecao have come up short at the World Cups staged the following year.
X is for Xavier Samim. The 35-year-old Tahiti goalkeeper will do battle with Mickael Roche to be first choice for the tournament having usurped his younger rival towards the end of the OFC Nations Cup.
Y is for Vicente Yanez. The Spaniard is believed to be the first European explorer to have set foot on Brazilian soil back in 1500.
Z is for Zagallo, Mario Zagallo. The now 81-year-old Brazilian coach lifted the 1997 version of the competition, having guided the Selecao to World Cup final glory back in 1970.
*Italy qualified as Euro 2012 runner-up as Spain holds the World Cup and European Championship crowns.

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We apparently have come a long way from Jeremy Roenick's big hug of Ed Snider when Roenick signed his massive free agent contract with the Flyers in 2001.
Roenick appears on the debut episode of a show called "Master Debaters," hosted by comedian Jay Mohr, tonight on FUEL TV (10:30 p.m.) and takes his shot at Philly fans during a debate segment on the most annoying fans in sports. Also on the panel are former Oakland A's outfielder Eric Byrnes and comedian Na'im Lynn.
JR goes to the booing of Santa Claus right away and then comes with this, "Do you remember when Tie Domi of the Maple Leafs was playing the Flyers and he was in the penalty box and that Philadelphia fan dove through the glass into the penalty box after the guy ... That is messed up fans. Philadelphia fans are crazy, crazy sons of bitches."
Perhaps his point was how intimidating the Philly fans are.
Mohr then brought up a completely inacurrate portrayal of the incident involving Michael Irvin being taken from the Vet with a neck injury.
"They threw snowballs at Michael Irvin on a friggin' stretcher. The guy might have had a broken nexk and they threw friggin' snowballs at him."
There's a video clip from the show below.
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The Huntington's disease projects are focused on the study of histone modifications, in particular histone acetylation. Our previous findings have shown that alteration in histone acetylation is one mechanism that underlies transcriptional dysregulation in Huntington's disease. Targeting histone modifying enzymes such as histone deacetylases is a novel approach for the treatment of several neurodegenerative disorders including Huntington's disease. Currently, as a collaborative effort we are focused on identifying specific and novel histone deacetylase inhibitors for the treatment of Huntington's disease. We apply the most current techniques, such as chromatin immunoprecipitation, real-time PCR, and genome-wide location analysis, and use both cell as well as animal models of Huntington's disease for our studies.
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The Volunteer Army: Who Fights and Why?
In 2003, Colby Buzzell, then twenty-six, was living in a small room in a renovated Victorian house in the Richmond district of San Francisco, doing data entry for financial companies. Raised in the suburbs of the Bay Area, Buzzell had hated high school and, deciding against college, ended up in a series of low-paying jobs—flower deliverer, valet parker, bike messenger, busboy, carpet cutter, car washer. Data entry paid somewhat better—about $12 an hour—but even so he was barely able to get by. At one point, he ran into an old friend who had joined the Marines, and, in his telling, military life sounded like one big frat party, but with weapons and paychecks. After nearly a year of feeling stuck, Buzzell decided to visit an Army recruiter. He describes his state of mind in My War: Killing Time in Iraq,1 an uproarious account of his life in the military:
I was sick of living my life in oblivion where every fucking day was the same fucking thing as the day before, and the same fucking routine day in and day out. Eat, shit, work, sleep, repeat.
At the time, I saw no escape from this. I was in my mid-twenties and I still had no fucking idea what the hell I wanted to do with myself….
I figured if I joined the military it might be a quick-fix solution to my problems, it would add some excitement to my life, and at the same time give me the sense that I had finally done something with myself. And who knows? A trip to the Middle East could be one hell of an adventure.
Buzzell had a long rap sheet and a history of drug use, but, with his recruiter's help, he made it through the application process, and before long he was off to boot camp.
Many of the other recent books written by soldiers about their experiences in Iraq offer similarly frank accounts of their paths into the military. In Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army,2 Kayla Williams, who joined the punk scene when she was thirteen and loved to drop acid, writes that she joined in part to get away from one boyfriend who turned out to have been married and to prove wrong another who had taunted her about her lack of toughness. The promise of a regular paycheck did not hurt. "There are many reasons to join the Army," she writes. "But without a doubt it's a great way—leaving aside the whole prospect of getting maimed or killed—to better your career prospects."
Joshua Key, in The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq,3 describes growing up in rural Oklahoma in a two-bedroom trailer with his mother and alcoholic stepfather and working at a series of minimum-wage jobs. At eighteen he got married and quickly had two sons but few prospects of providing…
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